English I Honors students began the fourth act of Romeo and Juliet. We looked at 3.5 again to see a couple of examples of subtext — where there is a second meaning to a text that one character or other doesn’t catch — focusing on Juliet’s reaction when her mother tells her that they are planning on sending someone to Mantua to kill Romeo:

Indeed, I never shall be satisfied
With Romeo till I behold him — dead —
Is my poor heart for a kinsman vexed.
Madam, if you could find out but a man
To bear a poison, I would temper it;
That Romeo should, upon receipt thereof,
Soon sleep in quiet. O, how my heart abhors
To hear him named, and cannot come to him
To wreak the love I bore my cousin
Upon his body that slaughtered him!

Using that as an example, we looked at a couple of examples in 4.1 after we read it.

English 8 students finished up the last steps to the Frederick Douglass text we’ve been reading in school during Black HIstory month. We’ll be wrapping everything up tomorrow.

Homework

• English 8: work on IXL as necessary.
• English I Honors: 
  • work on soundtrack project as needed and able (we’ve not reached the point that all students’ songs have a connection to the play);
  • work on IXL as necessary.